Rake may refer to:

• Rake, a stock character in a play or movie, a man of high society with loose morals
• Rake (software), a variant of the make program coded in the Ruby programming language
• Rake (tool), a long-handled tool with tines
• Rake, Iowa
• Rake receiver, a radio receiver
• The Rake, a Minnesota literary magazine
• Raking fire, fire along the axis of a ship in naval warfare
• Rake (poker), the commission taken by a casino when hosting a poker game
• Rake, a guitar playing technique, where one or more strings are muted before the intended notes when played
• For machinery and gates, "raked" means slanted; for example, the angle of the steering post of a bicycle to the vertical is its "rake angle"
• Rake (baseball), to hit a ball on the bat's sweet spot; its echo sounds like a clean sweep of a garden rake

See also

• The Rake's Progress is an English opera by Igor Stravinsky based on a series of illustrations by William Hogarth

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